Industry

Retail

Retail applications for humanoid robots include customer service, inventory management, shelf scanning, and store navigation assistance. The human form factor provides natural customer interaction that kiosk-based alternatives cannot match. Which humanoid robots are used in retail? SoftBank Pepper is the most widely deployed humanoid in retail, operating in stores across Japan, Europe, and the United States for customer greeting and product information. UBTECH Walker, 1X NEO, and Unitree robots are being evaluated for retail inventory and customer service applications. What retail tasks can humanoid robots perform? Humanoid robots in retail handle customer greeting, product information delivery, store navigation assistance, inventory scanning, and shelf condition monitoring. Pepper has demonstrated effectiveness in increasing customer engagement and dwell time in retail environments compared to digital signage alternatives.

Sanctuary AI Limited Beta

Sanctuary AI Phoenix

7.9/10 Overall Score

Phoenix is Sanctuary AI's commercial humanoid, distinguished by Carbon — a proprietary AI system that uses language models to generate robot behavior,…

~1.70 m (5'7") ~70 kg (154 lbs)
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SoftBank Pepper

7/10 Overall Score

Pepper was the world's first commercially deployed social robot, sold to 2,000+ businesses across retail, hospitality, and healthcare — and despite production…

1.20 m (3'11") 28 kg (62 lbs)
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